First we had the
Amazon Kindle, then
Plastic Logic came along - yet to go on the market - and now
Michael
Arrington and the team at TechCrunch bring us the CrunchPad.
It all started with a dream
Last July, Arrington posted an article with the following headline: "
We
Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet for $200. Help Us Build It." Arrington
went on to describe what his dream tablet would look like and how it
would function: Running as an open-source device, the screen would be
Apple-thin with an
iPhone-like touch screen keyboard. There would be a
headphone socket, a built-in camera, speakers and microphone and the
tablet would function on Wifi, be
Firefox-enabled, support
Skype (or
other VOIP service) and be fitted with an internal battery and solid
hard drive. The goal? "To keep the machine very simple and very cheap."
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2009/06/introducing_crunchpad_the_latest_e-reade.php&bodytext=First we had the <b>Amazon Kindle</b>, then <b>Plastic Logic</b> came along - yet to go on the market - and now <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/crunchpad-the-launch-prototype/"><b>Michael
Arrington</b> and the team at <b>TechCrunch</b> bring us the <b>CrunchPad</b></a>. <br /><br />
It all started with a dream<br /><br />
<form mt:asset-id="3104" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/logos/techcrunch.png"><img alt="techcrunch.png" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2009/06/techcrunch-thumb-231x34-3104.png" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" width="231" height="34" /></a></form>Last July, Arrington posted an article with the following headline: "<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/21/we-want-a-dead-simple-web-tablet-help-us-build-it/">We
Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet for $200. Help Us Build It</a>." Arrington
went on to describe what his dream tablet would look like and how it
would function: Running as an open-source device, the screen would be
<b>Apple</b>-thin with an <b>iPhone</b>-like touch screen keyboard. There would be a
headphone socket, a built-in camera, speakers and microphone and the
tablet would function on Wifi, be <b>Firefox</b>-enabled, support <b>Skype</b> (or
other VOIP service) and be fitted with an internal battery and solid
hard drive. The goal? "To keep the machine very simple and very cheap." &title=Introducing the <b>CrunchPad</b> - the latest e-reader on the block){kind=link}